Claire Stout, 12, burrows into a pile of plowed snow near her home in Maplewood, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The Northeast storm dumped over a foot of snow in northern N.J. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

Gallery: New Englanders begin digging out

Feb. 09, 2013 @ 05:06 PM

New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.